| Genealogy of the Way: The Construction and Uses of the Confucian Tradition in Late Imperial China Contributor(s): Wilson, Thomas A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0804724253 ISBN-13: 9780804724258 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $80.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Confucianism |
| Dewey: 181.112 |
| LCCN: 94022077 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 9" (1.61 lbs) 388 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Beginning in the late Southern Sung one sect of Confucianism gradually came to dominate literati culture and, by the Ming dynasty, was canonized as state orthodoxy. This book is a historical and textual critique of the construction of an ideologically exclusionary conception of the Confucian tradition, and how claims to possession of the truth-the Tao-came to serve power. |